If you are not paying for a service, should you expect the same protections?
If you do but implicitly (by sharing info good for ad targeting, etc), should it not be made explicit then? It should stop being "free" and legally become "free* (conditions apply)".
The grandparent comment that we're talking in the context of said that they registered a domain through Google's blogger service. I assume they paid for that domain.
And I've used paid Google services, support really isn't any better.
If you do but implicitly (by sharing info good for ad targeting, etc), should it not be made explicit then? It should stop being "free" and legally become "free* (conditions apply)".